On 2014-11-22 14:56, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> 
> 
> On 22/11/14 13:16, Leif Johansson wrote:
>> On 2014-11-21 17:24, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>>> On Nov 20, 2014, at 9:40 PM, Joseph Salowey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> "The named curve registry contains 160-bit elliptic curves which are 
>>>> considered to be roughly equivalent to only an 80-bit symmetric key 
>>>> [ECRYPT-II].   The use of curves of less than 192-bits is NOT 
>>>> RECOMMENDED."  
>>>
>>> Good catch, and this should be added to the text.
>>>
>>>> In the last paragraph the use of the term fingerprint seems odd and 
>>>> perhaps misleading.  I think the term hash algorithm would be better:
>>>>
>>>> "the use of the SHA-256 hash algorithm is RECOMMENDED"
>>>
>>> Yep.
>>
>> Still only one voice of support for this change. Consensus is rough to
>> the point of almost being absent.
> 
> I think the changes above are fine to make if changes are being done.
> 
> I didn't post before because I thought they should be uncontroversial
> not because I didn't support the changes. (And I'd also trust you chairs
> to identify such uncontroversial changes without each one getting a load
> of +1's - if you judge them so and say that to the list, then we get a
> chance to object if we think you've called it wrong. And then there's
> IETF LC etc. afterwards anyway.)
> 

thx


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